“Go to where the light is” may seem a strange directive for someone seeking to escape from a totalitarian regime until one sees a photo of North Korea and its neighbors taken from a satellite. Yeonmi Park’s tale of her escape reveals that not only is the darkness physical, but spiritual as well.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Tala’ by Kyoung H. Park
Park is the first Korean playwright from Latin America to be produced and published in the U.S.
Read More »Vietnam Asks Korea to Cancel Vietnam War Celebrations
If South Korea chooses to go through with a 50th anniversary commemorative event, the repercussions could be serious – both economically and politically – because of bad blood between Korea and Vietnam over the Vietnam War.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Let Me Out’
There are two ways that films illuminate difficult truths about growing up; painfully, and charmingly as is done in "Let Me Out."
Read More »Book Review: Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
What's it like to be born in a North Korean prison camp?
Read More »The Korean War: Humanitarian Heroes Fighting Hunger
Nothing should ever be forgotten about the humanitarian who saved and the changed the lives of a generation in Korea.
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